Mark Marissen

Strategist I Advocate I Liberal I Urbanist I Proud Canadian 🇨🇦 Principal,

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

A country that values art empowers its artists.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Yes, it is unreal. It had in fact been thoroughly debunked by the time you posted this.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

Ottawa plans to expand CSIS’s powers to spy abroad, a possible first step toward Canada’s own CIA or MI6.

A senior official says PM @MarkJCarney wants independent foreign intelligence, admitting Canada has been a “net importer,” according to The Globe and Mail.

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

This new psychedelic, gonzo documentary, 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney', looks set to be a fascinating watch.

Viewing the trailer, I’m infuriated all over again by the reminder that the @CBC sits on oceans of high-quality footage from 20th-century Canadian history, from political conventions and elections to everyday life, yet keep it locked away in their vaults.

Granted, you can probably access it if you have the resources to make a full-length film, but for the rest of us? Navigating the system is a headache at best.

This is our history, funded directly by our tax dollars. Every frame of it should be easily accessible and fully open to the public for viewing and use.

It almost feels as though the bureaucracy has a vested interest in keeping Canadians detached from their past.

Perhaps it's just the history nerd in me, but when my country’s visual heritage is so needlessly gatekept, I feel robbed of a part of my inheritance as a Canadian citizen. I simply want to see and hear the country that my parents and grandparents grew up in.

We pay for the salaries and projects of the CBC. Open the archives for the rest of us.

[Mason Home Builder @bankertobuilder]

New York City, 1895, colorized

The good old days before public transit ruined the city

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Poilievre: “They literally have mothers who drop on their knees begging for food because they can't feed their kids.”

Also Poilievre: *votes NO for National School Food Program*

And performative Pierre doesn’t realise you don’t need to beg to get food at Canada’s food banks.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Six weeks without running water or heat. An elevator broken for over TWO YEARS.

I'm in the DTES quite a bit, and the West Hotel is the WORST hotel I've seen.

Imagine carrying buckets of water upstairs just to flush your toilet. 🤬

Why are landlords allowed to get away with this? Where's the accountability?
Being poor should NEVER mean surrendering your human dignity.

These are human beings, and this is absolutely DISGRACEFUL.

[Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Having worked with clients on RTR in past years, I am extremely excited to see its rollout begin in Canada.

By 2028, Canada could have one of the most modern payment infrastructures anywhere in the world, combining real-time settlement, internationally interoperable data standards (ISO 20022), and advanced fraud protection.

Canada is also the first G7 country to launch a real-time payments system with mandatory centralized fraud services from day one.

This is a big deal for Canadian fintech innovation. Paired with advancing open banking architecture, consumers can expect experience improvements and more competition in the years ahead.

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@classicaviator2 @GMDanTO Most newspaper endorsements in Canada are for the Conservatives.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We’re empowering more Canadian artists — painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, actors — to tell our stories, in our own voices, in our own ways.

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@classicaviator2 @GMDanTO Most newspaper endorsements in Canada are for the Conservatives.

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

So what's the alternative here, Josh?

Canadian media solely dependent on foreign corporations, billionaire owners and corporate advertisers?

How is that healthier for democracy?

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

Most Canadians are blissfully unaware that in addition to major newspapers and CBC, Global, CTV and City also now depend on federal subsidies. This is not healthy for democracy. Rewarding this rent-seeking also creates an unfair advantage for new entrants & prevents innovation.

[Ramsey Kilani 🌐🔰 @Ramsey_Kilani]

What a disappointment

Remember when this guy was talking about removing the gatekeepers to housing?

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@BobBobrovsky72 Led by you?

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

100 million Canadians by 2100 would mean slowing down Canada’s growth.

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[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

2100 = three generations from now.

To get to 100 mil from 42 mil in 74 years entails population growth of a little less than 1.2 per cent per year. Actual population growth over the last 74 years: 1.44 per cent per year.
So the scary, scary proposition that this professional fear-monger would like you to lose your mind over is ... to slow down population growth by about a fifth.
No doubt if you had told people in 1952, when the population was less than 15 million, that Canada's population in 2026 would be nearly 42 million, they would have panicked, too. How will we ever feed all those people? How will we ever employ them? etc In fact, employment grew faster than population (4x vs 2.9x). Per capita GDP has more than quadrupled. etc etc.
Or rather no, probably they wouldn't have panicked. Because our politics had not yet been overrrun by such chronic bed-wetters.

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@YukonNards No. You didn't demonstrate anything other than selectively choose a different data set.

[Cynthia Pace 🇨🇦 @cynthiapace1]

EVERY nation has nation has at least one state owned media. Canada has none.

We partially fund our journalism so that they will present. Canada started the story at least sometimes. That’s better than every other country does.

The only propaganda you love is what comes from Fox News in USA. That’s blatantly obvious by your comment.

Sit down fool just sit down 🙄🙄

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@GMDanTO Is it a conflict of interest for the government to fund our schools, where they actually teach history, social studies and politics?

(And, BTW, there’s unfavourable coverage all the time.)

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@YukonNards So if you selectively calculate our growth over the last 75 years you can come up with anything.

[Syntheticus Humanitus @TheChaosWeeber]

I wouldn’t call them miserable

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

@YukonNards Here you go. 75 years from now would average out lower than this.